“Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.”
“Man is free; but not unless he believes he is”
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The Story of My Life (trans. Sartarelli/Hawkes 2001), Preface, p. 1
Referenced
Quoted in The Zanesville Sunday Times-Signal [Zanesville, Ohio] (15 March 1931): On reasons for the Great Depression
“A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.”
1969 note to self, as quoted in Nixon (1987) by Stephen E. Ambrose, p. 284
1960s
Variant: A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.
“Man is not worshipful unless he is clement.”
Muhammad Kulayni, Usūl al-Kāfī, vol.2, p. 113.
Religious Wisdom
Source: World Wrestling Federation (1984-1993), Royal Rumble (1993)
“That was all a man needed: hope. It was a lack of hope that discouraged a man.”
Source: Factotum (1975), Ch. 29
Context: That was all a man needed: hope. It was a lack of hope that discouraged a man. I remembered my New Orleans days, living on two five-cent candy bars a day for weeks at a time in order to have leisure to write. But starvation, unfortunately, didn't improve art. It only hindered it. A man's soul was rooted in his stomach. A man could write much better after eating a porterhouse steak and drinking a pint of whiskey than he could ever write after eating a nickel candy bar. The myth of the starving artist was a hoax.
“But man is not made for defeat... a man can be destroyed but not defeated.”
Variant: A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
Source: The Old Man and the Sea (1952)
“No man becomes rich unless he enriches others.”
